• Beatriz Forster ’14 (Glastonbury, Conn.), a double major in history and political science, and Laura Wells ’14 (Poughquag, N.Y.), a mathematics major, will study at Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University in England. Forster will examine the relevance of G.K. Chesterton’s apologetics to contemporary academia. Wells will examine the nature of Catholic feminism in the writings of the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe and Pope John Paul II.

• Emily Foster ’13 (Wrentham, Mass.), a psychology major, will work with the Dominican NGO at the United Nations Council on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

Father Smith fellowships, first awarded in 2009, are funded in part through a gift from Kathleen Tellier Murray ’83G, who served on PC’s Board of Trustees from 2000-08, and her husband, Thomas Murray. Father Smith, who died in 2007, was a member of the Class of 1963 and served as PC’s 11th president from 1994-2005.